R.I.P. Steve Jobs

[ABM]

You will be missed.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

There's no app for death.

 

[ABM]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/statement-by-apples-board-of-directors-2011-10-05

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

 

[ABM]

Mac
iPod
iMac
iTunes
iPhone
iPad
PIXAR

The list goes on and on..................

 

[Sex Panther]

rest in peace

 

[THE HCP]

Damn man...... 56 years old. I'm a Mac guy inside and out, damn!

 

[Natebishop3]

Mac
iPod
iMac
iTunes
iPhone
iPad
PIXAR

The list goes on and on..................

I think his biggest achievements were the original Apple computers, the Mac, and the iPhone. I don't give him much credit for inventing the iPod or iTunes because Napster was already huge at that point and he merely created the first successful pay-to-play mp3 service. If anything the guy was a marketing genius. I've never been that impressed with Apple products, but I am certainly impressed with how they have marketed them to the younger generation. Seems like every kid has an iPhone, an iPod, and desperately wants an iPad. That's marketing.

I also think the iPad was just taking the concept of the Kindle and turning it into a giant iPhone. Of course, once again, the Apple marketing machine has made tablets a "must have" and now everyone wants one. I still think a laptop is a better buy for your money.

Regardless, the guy was a visionary and he definitely changed this country with his technology. I thought this quote was very fitting.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." - Steve Jobs

 

[tlongII]

Steve Jobs dead at 56

Sad day. One of the truly great innovators in history in my opinion.

 

[tlongII]

Re: Steve Jobs dead at 56

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html?iref=BN1

 

[tlongII]

Re: Steve Jobs dead at 56

Please delete this thread. I didn't see ABM's.

 

[tlongII]

One of the great innovators in history in my opinion.

 

[Denny Crane]

Perhaps the saddest day in the history of computing.

He will be sorely missed.

 

[MickZagger]

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[THE HCP]

PaulGAllen.................

My condolences to Steve Jobs family and friends. We’ve lost a unique tech pioneer and auteur who knew how to make amazingly great products.

 

[tlongII]

iRIP

 

[sov300]

RIP...

 

[ABM]

Wow, interesting.....

http://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-estranged-father-never-got-phone-call-014119004.html

Steve Jobs' estranged father, who had given up his infant son for adoption, had been hoping that his grown son would call him. That hope died today.

Abdulfattah John Jandali had emailed his son a few times in a tentative effort to make contact. The father never called the son because he feared Jobs would think the dad who had given him up was now after his fortune.

And Jobs never responded to his father's emails.

"I really don't have anything to say," Jandali, vice president at Boomtown Hotel Casino in Reno, Nev., told the International Business Times.
Jandali, a Syrian immigrant, had been quoted by the New York Post recently saying he didn't know until just a few years ago that the baby he and his ex-wife, Joanne Simpson, gave up grew to be Apple's CEO.

Jandali told the Post that had it been his choice, he would have kept the baby. But Simpson's father did not approve of her marrying a Syrian, so she moved to San Francisco to have the baby alone and give him up for adoption.............................

 

[HailBlazers]

 

[ABM]

9 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Steve Jobs:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/8-things-didn-t-know-life-steve-jobs-172130955.html

2. College dropout

The lead mind behind the most successful company on the planet never graduated from college, in fact, he didn't even get close. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California — a town now synonymous with 1 Infinite Loop, Apple's headquarters — Jobs enrolled in Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed at Reed (a liberal arts university in Portland, Oregon) for only one semester, dropping out quickly due to the financial burden the private school's steep tuition placed on his parents.

In his famous 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University, Jobs said of his time at Reed: "It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

 

[ABM]

Steve Jobs' legacy: Creating jobs without government money.

What an absolutely appropriate last name.

 

[huevonkiller]

RIP, seemed like a nice person.

 

[ABM]

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